Kim Sharma Recalls Karan Johar’s Criticism After Her Mohabbatein Audition; Questions, “Kyun Heroine Banna Chahti Ho?”

Aditya Chopra’s Mohabbatein continues to remain cult classic even today. From songs, dialogues to characters, everything about movie is vividly remembered by the audience. The film featured an ensemble cast alongside Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan. Uday Chopra, Kim Sharma, Jugal Hansraj, Jimmy Shergil, Shamita Shetty also starred in the film. In a recent chat, Kim Sharma recalled how Karan Johar was unimpressed by her Mohabbatein audition and even criticised her.

Kim Sharma on Karan Johar’s reaction to her Mohabbatein audition

In a conversation with Kunickaa Sadanand on her YouTube channel, Kim Sharma said that moving to films was very incidental. She was just 18 when she signed the movie. Recalling her audition process, she shared, “I auditioned thrice, one with the assistant director Nikkhil Advani and the second one with Karan (Johar, filmmaker). Life has come full circle for both of us. I work for him in his large organisation now. He took my first audition and I don’t think he was very impressed with me.”

She continued, “He said, ‘Tumhe dance karna nahi aata, dialogue bolna nahi aata; kyun heroine banna chahti ho? (You don’t know how to dance or deliver dialogues; why do you want to become a heroine?)’ Then, I said that I didn’t want to become an actor and that I was just doing this because I was instructed to be there. Nahi hua toh bhi kuch nahi hota. My third audition was taken by Aditya Chopra and he really liked me.”

The actress recalls not being from industry and how she later understood magnitude of the film. “Even after meeting Shah Rukh and Amitabh Bachchan, I hadn’t realised the magnitude of the opportunity.” She also remembered getting negative review and shared, “After the film was released, people had many opinions, both good and bad. I got really bad reviews, people said that ‘she is really terrible’. I decided to not take them seriously so that I don’t get hurt”.

After Mohabbatein, Kim Sharma went on to appear in films such as ‘Tum Se Achcha kaun Hai,’ ‘Khadgam’, ‘Fida’, ‘Nehlle Pe Dehlla’, among others.

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